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Yeah |
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I roll with clever broads |
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With goals like Federov |
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Seeking better jobs instead of running scam's like "set it off" |
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some aren't the sharpest but they know what they stand for |
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they don't let jams disrespect them on the dance floor |
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and no they never hit college like the Danforth |
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for damn sure they got each other back like a jansport |
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girls in a league of they own, like gina davis, |
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nina simon ladies, tina fey chicks, christina applegates |
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and bonita applebaums that don't mask and say "nothing" when |
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you ask whats wrong. That's what's up. And they can laugh it up. |
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And they don't pass the buck. |
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Nothing for certain we all have to trust someone, |
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I used to want to find the love of my life, |
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now i'm trying to live a life of love, it's not just a husband and wife thing |
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something that christ bring's some comfort at night |
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true beauty doesn't run from the light. |
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Keep Shining. |
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Keep Shining |
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And I've been known to talk about women on a track or two |
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I talk to women I just can't talk for women, |
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thats for you |
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We need women for that more women in rap, |
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even tracks like kweli's for women |
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That's still only half the view of the world |
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theres no girls rapping so we only hearing |
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half the truth, what we have to lose? |
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too much half our youth gone represented, |
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the better halves of dues. |
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So we don't hear about your brain just your "brains" |
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How you Roc-A-Fella |
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Stacy Dash things. |
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We just need your voice like an acapella |
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Something in the music gotta change. |
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Alot of things. |
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It's funny how words like consciousness and positive music |
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can somehow start to feel hollow. |
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its become too synonymous. |
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We're polishing soft collagen lips, on the face of grace politics. |
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Well you can't be everything to everyone, so lemme be anything to anyone. |
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The world turns and their's clouds sometimes but there's no such thing as a setting sun. |
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It always keep shining. |
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Keep Shining. |
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Check it out. |
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My mom taught me where to keep my heart. |
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My aunt taught me how to sing two parts. |
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My sis taught me how to parallel park, |
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and tried to teach me math but she way to too smart. |
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My grandma in the 80's is still sharp. |
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My girl's cousin is in activism in art. |
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They taught there's no curls to tight, no mind too bright, no skin to dark |
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to keep shining. |
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Yeah, Keep shining. |
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Yeah |
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Yeah. |
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Keep Shining. |